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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1908
Page
3
Leslie's Weekly surveys the Chinese queue as symbol of manhood, detailing etiquette from tail styling to shaving, barber trades, and social strata. It notes color codes for mourning and weddings, the dangers of queue cutting, and the shift toward Western dress amid modernization.
The 1857 pig iron output stood at 1 million tons, while this year’s production nears 25 million tons. Cargo ships of the Steel corporation deliver 12 000 to 13 000 ton loads at lower costs with faster unloading. Lake Superior ore demand now totals about 40 million tons, approaching London and Liverpool port tonnage.
A passage from Youth's Companion describes Arab barbers in Biskra using a sheathknife edge to shave swiftly. M. W. Hilton-Simpson notes a Haouamed campman skinning a sheep and shaving with the same knife in under thirty minutes. A camel driver, seated on a water moistened chair, is shaved bald in about three minutes with no soap and a European razor.
A London Black and White reflection notes health as the core of a musician's life. It discusses preserving health as the central challenge in a musician's professional career.
A reader recounts turning orange seed leftovers into coral dyed balls strung on cotton thread to form a decorative fan chain. Each chain sells for a dollar after minimal outlay, illustrating inventive economy and personal whim catalogued in period prose.
Helen Todd, factory inspector, tells the Catholic Woman's League in Chicago of a dreadful sweatshop where a sixteen year old girl worked twelve hours daily stitching dainty baby garments while using morphine and other drugs to sustain her strength. The remark cites dainty wraps and bonnets worn by the children of the rich as being produced under such conditions.
Miss Elizabeth Jordan recalls a visit with Mrs. Bacon Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon. While driving on a quiet road a snake frightened Mrs. Bacon who, though fearless with horses, screamed and clung to the reins and Jordan. The tale underscores courage in varied forms.
A Victorian style essay argues women should carefully choose a husband rather than leave mate selection to chance. It contrasts past restraint with modern autonomy, notes shifting roles, and advises targeting a young, docile, poetic suitor while preserving dignity and prudence.
The Madrid palace hosts a baby suite fitted by English influences for the royal infant. Living room, dining room, nurseries and bath are designed for health and airiness with white and green decor, washable surfaces, and a cradle used by forebears. The queen mother enforces the layout while Queen Victoria’s air-loving lineage inspires ventilation.
The article blends fashion observations on silk ties, velvets, lace and hats with a Pure Food advertisement for Wheat and Barley based Grape-Nuts. It touts velvet underskirts, Japanese sleeves, and venetian laces while promoting potassium phosphate as nerve and brain support, ending with the slogan There’s a Reason.
A woman writer and mother credits Grape-Nuts and Postum for steady morning appetite and sustained brain power. She reports improved nourishment for herself and four children, including a 10 month old, with clearer thought and no head pain while writing.
The piece describes a Japanese laborer earning low wages with very cheap food. He subsists mainly on coarse rice, eating one meal daily, sometimes fish heads or chicken insides. He drinks water, and on festivals drinks sake, paying for a night mat as well.
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